The same southeasterly breeze causing the Maxi 72 and Wally abandonments, extended north towards Bomb Alley.

While the course for the Mini Maxi classes was shortened before this, the larger classes had to struggle through it.

This caused some disgruntlement especially in the Super Maxi class where the new 32.5m Malcolm McKeon-designed Ribelle claimed the Super Maxi class mainly by avoiding a hole which Nilaya and WinWin were stuck in ahead of her.

Like Jethou in the Mini Maxi Racing class, the fastest boats also won under IRC corrected time in the Maxi class.

Here George David’s Rambler 88 sped around the course followed by Sir Irvine Laidlaw’s Highland Fling XI, but with a massive gap under IRC of almost 16 minutes between Rambler 88 and Canadian Will Apold’s Southern Wind 96, Sorceress.